Drewniak ME, Briscoe AD, Cocucci AA, Beccaecece HM, Zapata AI, Moré M. 2020. From the butterfly’s point of view: learned color association determines differential pollination of two co-occurring mock verbains by Agraulis vanillae (Nymphaliae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blaa066, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa066
Atilano SR, Kenney MC, Briscoe AD, Jameson KA. 2020. A two-step method for identifying photopigment opsin and rhodopsin gene sequences underlying human color vision phenotypes. Molecular Vision, 26:158-172, http://www.molvis.org/molvis/v26/158
Mullen SP, Vankuren NW, Zhang W, Nallu S, Kristiansen EB, Wuyun Q, Liu K, Hill RI, Briscoe AD, Kronforst MR. 2020. Disentangling population history and character evolution among hybridizing lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37:1295-1305. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa004
Krishna A, Nie X, Warren AD, Llorente-Bousquets JE, Briscoe AD, Lee J. 2020. Infrared optical and thermal properties of microstructures in butterfly wings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 117:1566-1572. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas/1906356117
Briscoe AD. “Latino STEM Teachers, DACA, and the Future of Teaching,” Latino Rebels, Wednesday, November 20, 2019. https://www.latinorebels.com/2019/11/20/latinostemteachersdaca/
Catalán A, Briscoe AD, Höhna S. 2019. Drift and directional selection are the evolutionary forces driving gene expression divergence in eye and brain tissue of Heliconius butterflies. Genetics, 213:581-594. DOI: 10.1534/genetics.119.302493
Briscoe A. “Flying colors: Researcher reveals hidden wold through the eyes of butterflies,” The Conversation, Tuesday, July 2, 2019 https://theconversation.com/flying-colors-researcher-reveals-hidden-world
Macias-Muñoz A, Rangel Olguin AG, Briscoe AD. 2019. Evolution of phototransduction genes in Lepidoptera. Geome Biology and Evolution, 11:2107-2124. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evz150
Palmer DH, Tan YQ, Finkbeiner SD, Briscoe AD, Monteiro A, Kronforst MR. 2018. Experimental field tests of Batesian mimicry in the swallowtain butterfly Papilio polytes. Ecology and Evolution, 8:7657-7666. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4207 pdf
Catalán A, Macias-Muñoz A, Briscoe AD. 2018. Evolution of sex-biased gene expression and dosage compensation in the eye and brain of Heliconius butterflies. Molecular Biology and Evolution,. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mys111 pdf
Finkbeiner SD, Salazar-Carrion PA, Nogales S, Rush CE, Briscoe AD, Hill RI, Kronforst MR, Willmott KR, Mullen SP. 2018. Frequency-dependence shapes the adaptive landscape of imperfect Batesian mimicry. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 285:20172786, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2786 pdf
Smith G, Macias-Muñoz A, Kelly J, Butts C, Martin R, Briscoe AD. 2018. Evolutionary and structural analyses uncover a role for solvent interactions in the diversification of cocoonases in butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 285:20172037. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2037 pdf
Wilts BD, Vey AJM, Briscoe AD, Stavenga DG. 2017. Longwing (Heliconius) butterflies combine a restricted set of pigmentary and structural coloration mechanisms. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17:226, DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-1073-1 pdf
Macias-Muñoz A, McCulloch KJ, Briscoe AD. 2017. Copy number variation and expression analysis reveals a non-orthologous pinta gene family member involved in butterfly vision. Genome Biology and Evolution, 9:3398-3412. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx230 pdf
McCulloch KJ, Yuan F, Zhen Y, Aardema ML, Smith G, Llorente-Bousquets J, Andolfatto P, Briscoe AD. 2017. Sexual dimorphism and retinal mosaic diversification following the evolution of a violet receptor in butterflies. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34:2271-2284, DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx163 pdf
Finkbeiner SD, Fishman DA, Osorio D, Briscoe AD. 2017. Ultraviolet and yellow reflectance but not fluorescence is important for visual discrimination of conspecifics by Heliconius erato. Journal of Experimental Biology 220:1267-1276, DOI: 10.1242/jeb.153593 pdf
Smith G, Macias-Muñoz A, Briscoe AD. 2016. Gene duplication and gene expression changes play a role in the evolution of candidate pollen-feeding genes in Heliconius butterflies. Genome Biology and Evolution 8:2581-2596, DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw180 pdf
Kanost MR, 52 co-authors, McCulloch KJ, 26 co-authors, Briscoe AD, 32 co-authors Blissard GW. 2016. Multifaceted biological insights from a draft genome sequence of the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 78:118-147, doi:10.1016/j.ibmb.2016.07.005 pdf
McCulloch K, Osorio D, Briscoe AD. 2016. Sexual dimorphism in the compound eye of Heliconius erato: a nymphalid with at least five classes of photoreceptor. Journal of Experimental Biology 219:2377-2387, doi:10.1242/jeb.136523 pdf
van Schooten B, Jiggins C, Briscoe AD, Papa R. 2016. Genome-wide analysis of ionotropic receptors provides insight into their evolution in Heliconius butterflies. BMC Genomics 17:254, e53829, doi:10.1186/s12864-016-2572-y pdf
McCulloch K, Osorio D, Briscoe AD. 2016. Determination of photoreceptor cell spectral sensitivity in an insect model from in vivo intracellular recordings. Journal of Visualized Experiments (108) e53829, doi:10.3791/53829 pdf
Macias-Muñoz A, Smith G, Monteiro A, Briscoe AD. 2016. Transcriptome-wide differential gene expression in Bicyclus anynana butterflies: Female vision-related genes are more plastic. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33: 79-92, doi: 10.1093/molbev/msv197 pdf
Rolán-Alvarez E, Carvajal-Rodríguez A, de Coo A, Cortés B, Estévez D, Ferreira M, González R, Briscoe AD. 2015. The scale-of-choice effect and how estimates of assortative mating in the wild can be biased due to heterogeneous samples. Evolution 69:1845-57 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12691. pdf
Ebel ER, DaCosta J, Sorenson MD, Hill RI, Briscoe AD, Willmott KR, Mullen SP. 2015. Rapid diversification associated with ecological specialization in Neotropical Adelpha butterflies. Molecular Ecology, 24:2392-2405 DOI:10.111/mec.13168. pdf
Smith G, Briscoe AD. 2015. Molecular evolution and expression of the CRAL-TRIO protein family in insects. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 62:168-173. dx.doi.org/10/1016/j.ibmb.2015.02.003. pdf
Frentiu FD, Yuan F, Savage WK, Bernard GD, Mullen SP, Briscoe AD. 2015. Opsin clines in butterflies suggest novel roles for insect photopigments. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32:368-79. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msu304. pdf supplementary figures and tables and legends.
Finkbeiner SD, Briscoe AD, Reed RD. 2014. Warning signals are seductive: Relative contributions of color and pattern to predator avoidance and mate attraction in Heliconius butterflies. Evolution, doi: 10.1111/evo.12524. pdf
Smith G, Macias-Muñoz A, Briscoe AD. 2014. Complete genome sequence of a novel iflavirus from mRNA sequencing of the butterfly Heliconius erato. Genome Announcements 2(3):pii: e00398-14 DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00398-14. pdf
Smith G, Chen YR, Blissard GW, Briscoe AD. 2014. Complete dosage compensation and sex-biased gene expression in the moth Manduca sexta. Genome Biology and Evolution 6(3):526-537 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu035. pdf
Martin A, McCulloch KJ, Patel NH, Briscoe AD, Gilbert LE, Reed RD. 2014. Multiple recent co-options of Optix associated with novel traits in adaptive butterfly wing radiation. EvoDevo 5(1);7 DOI: 10.1186/2014-9139-5-7. pdf
Leboulle G, Niggebrugge C, Robler R, Briscoe AD, Menzel R, Hempel de Ibarra N. 2013. Characterisation of the RNA interference response against the long-wavelength receptor of the honeybee. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 43(10):959-969 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2013.07.006. pdf
Briscoe AD, Macias-Muñoz A, Kozak K, Yuan F, Walters JR, Jamie GA, Martin SH, Dasmahapatra KD, Ferguson LG, Mallet J, Jacquin-Joly E, Jiggins CD. 2013. Female behaviour drives expression and evolution of gustatory receptors in butterflies. PLoS Genetics DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003620. pdf Jay Hosler Cartoon Supplement
Everett A, Tong X, Briscoe AD, Monteiro A. 2012. Phenotypic plasticity in opsin expression complements sex-role reversal. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12:232. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-232. pdf
Heliconius Genome Consortium, Dasmahapatra KK*, Walters JR*, Briscoe AD, Davey JW, Whibley A, Nadeau NJ, Zimin AV, Hughes DS, Ferguson LC, Martin SH, Salazar C, Lewis JJ, Adler S, Ahn SJ, Baker DA, Baxter SW, Chamberlain NL, Chauhan R, Counterman BA, Dalmay T, Gilbert LE, Gordon K, Heckel DG, Hines HM, Hoff KJ, Holland PW, Jacquin-Joly E, Jiggins FM, Jones RT, Kapan DD, Kersey P, Lamas G, Lawson D, Mapleson D, Maroja LS, Martin A, Moxon S, Palmer WJ, Papa R, Papanicolaou A, Pauchet Y, Ray DA, Rosser N, Salzberg SL, Supple MA, Surridge A, Tenger-Trolander A, Vogel H, Wilkinson PA, Wilson D, Yorke JA, Yuan F, Balmuth AL, Eland C, Gharbi K, Thomson M, Gibbs RA, Han Y, Jayaseelan JC, Kovar C, Mathew T, Muzny DM, Ongeri F, Pu LL, Qu J, Thornton RL, Worley KC, Wu YQ, Linares M, Blaxter ML, Ffrench-Constant RH, Joron M, Kronforst MR, Mullen SP, Reed RD, Scherer SE, Richards S, Mallet J, Owen McMillan W, Jiggins CD.. 2012. Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species. Nature *co-first authors. 487: 94-98. DOI: 10.1038/nature11041. Link to paper
Bybee SM, Yuan F, Ramstetter MD, Llorente-Bousquets J, Reed RD, Osorio D, Briscoe AD. 2012. UV photoreceptors and UV-yellow wing pigments in Heliconius butterflies allow a color signal to serve both mimicry and intraspecific communication. The American Naturalist, 179: 38-51, DOI:10.1086/663192. pdf
Finkbeiner S, Briscoe AD, Reed RD. 2012. The benefit of being a social butterfly: communal roosting deters predation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279:2769-76. DOI: 10.1098/rspb. 2012.0203 pdf
Blackiston D, Briscoe AD, Weiss MR. 2011. Color vision and learning in the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (Nymphalidae). Journal of Experimental Biology, 214: 509-512. pdf supplemental movie
Yuan F, Bernard GD, Le J*, Briscoe AD. 2010. Contrasting modes of evolution of the visual pigments in Heliconius butterflies. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27:2392-2405 pdf
Briscoe AD, Bybee SM, Bernard GD, Yuan F, Sison-Mangus MP, Reed RD, Warren AD, Llorente-Bousquets J, Chiao CC. 2010. Reply to Nozawa et al.: Complementary statistical methods support positive selection of a duplicated UV opsin gene in Heliconius. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 107:E97. pdf
Briscoe AD, Bybee SM, Bernard GD, Yuan F, Sison-Mangus MP, Reed RD, Warren AD, Llorente-Bousquets J, Chiao CC. 2010. Positive selection of a duplicated ultraviolet-sensitive visual pigment coincides with wing pigment evolution in Heliconius butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 107:3628-3633. pdf supporting information
Bradley TJ, Briscoe AD, Brady SG, Contreras HL, Danforth BN, Dudley R, Grimaldi D, Harrison JF, Kaiser JA, Merlin C, Reppert SM, VandenBrooks JM, Yanoviak SP. 2009. Episodes in insect evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 49: 590-606. pdf
Pohl N, Sison-Mangus MP, Yee EN*, Liswi SW*, Briscoe AD. 2009. Impact of duplicate gene copies on phylogenetic analysis and divergence time estimates in butterflies. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9:99. pdf
Sison-Mangus MP, Briscoe AD. 2009. Molecular and physiological innovations of butterfly eyes. In: Molecular Biology and Genetics of the Lepidoptera. Edited by Marian R. Goldsmith and Franticek Marec. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. pp. 121-135.
Frentiu FD, Briscoe AD. 2008. A butterfly’s eye view of birds. BioEssays 30: 1151-1162. pdf
Briscoe AD. 2008. Reconstructing the ancestral butterfly eye: Focus on the opsins. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 1805-1813. pdf
Sison-Mangus MP, Briscoe AD, Zaccardi G, Knüttel H, Kelber A. 2008. The lycaenid butterfly Polyommatus icarus uses a duplicated blue opsin to see green. Journal of Experimental Biology, 211: 361-369. pdf
Frentiu FD, Bernard GD, Sison-Mangus MP, Brower AVZ, Briscoe AD. 2007. Gene duplication is an evolutionary mechanism for expanding spectral diversity of the long wavelength photopigments of butterflies. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24:2016-2028. pdf
Frentiu FD, Bernard GD, Cuevas CI*, Sison-Mangus MP, Prudic KL, Briscoe AD. 2007. Adaptive evolution of color vision as seen through the eyes of butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, U.S.A., 104: 8634-8640. pdf
Yuan Q, Metterville D, Briscoe AD and Reppert SM. 2007. Insect cryptochromes: Gene duplication and loss define diverse ways to construct insect circadian clocks. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24: 948-955. pdf
Sison-Mangus MP, Bernard GD, Lampel J, and Briscoe AD. 2006. Beauty in the eye of the beholder: The two blue opsins of lycaenid butterflies and the opsin gene-driven evolution of sexually dimorphic eyes. Journal of Experimental Biology, 209: 3079-3090. pdf
Zaccardi G, Kelber A, Sison-Mangus MP, Briscoe AD. 2006. Color discrimination in the red range with only one long-wavelength sensitive opsin. Journal of Experimental Biology, 209: 1944-1955. pdf
Zhu HS, Yuan Q, Briscoe AD, Froy O, Casselman A, Reppert SM. 2006. The two CRYs of the butterfly. Current Biology 16: 730. [Erratum in which ADB was added as a co-author]. See original citation: Zhu HS, Yuan Q, Froy O, Casselman A, Reppert SM. 2005. The two CRYs of the butterfly. Current Biology, 15: R953-R954. pdf
Lampel J, Briscoe AD, Wasserthal LT. 2005. Expression of UV-, blue-, long wavelength-sensitive opsins and melatonin in extraretinal photoreceptors of the optic lobes of hawkmoths. Cell and Tissue Research, 321:443-458. pdf
Spaethe J, Briscoe AD. 2005. Molecular characterization and expression of the UV opsin in bumblebees: Three ommatidial subtypes in the retina and a new photoreceptor organ in the lamina. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208: 2347-2361. pdf
Sauman I**, Briscoe AD**, Zhu H, Shi DD, Froy O, Stalleicken J, Yuan Q, Casselman A and Reppert SM. 2005. Connecting the navigational clock to sun compass input in monarch butterfly brain. Neuron, 46: 457-467. pdf supplementary data
Briscoe AD, Bernard GD. 2005. Eyeshine and spectral tuning of long wavelength-sensitive rhodopsins: No evidence for red-sensitive photoreceptors among five nymphaline butterfly species. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208: 687-696. pdf
Briscoe AD, White RH. 2005. Adult stemmata of the butterfly Vanessa cardui express UV and green opsin mRNAs. Cell and Tissue Research, 319:175-9. pdf
Spaethe J, Briscoe AD. 2004. Early duplication and functional diversification of the opsin gene family in insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 21: 1583-1594. pdf
Briscoe AD, Gaur C, Kumar S. 2004. The spectrum of human rhodopsin disease mutations through the lens of interspecific variation. Gene, 332: 107-118. pdf
Briscoe AD, Bernard GD, Szeto AS*, Nagy LM, White RH. 2003. Not All butterfly eyes are created equal: Rhodopsin absorption spectra, molecular identification, and localization of ultraviolet-, blue- and green-sensitive rhodopsin-encoding mRNAs in the retina of Vanessa cardui. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 458: 334-349. pdf
Briscoe AD. 2003. Molecular and physiological diversity of visual mechanisms in Papilio. In Boggs CL, Watt WB and Ehrlich PR, (Eds.) Butterflies: Evolution and Ecology Taking Flight. Univ. of Chicago Press, pp. 27-41.
Briscoe AD. 2002. Homology modeling suggests a functional role for parallel amino acid substitutions between bee and butterfly red- and green-sensitive opsins. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19: 983-986. pdf
Briscoe AD. 2001. Functional diversification of lepidopteran opsins following gene duplication. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 18: 2270-2279. pdf
Hsu R*, Briscoe AD, Chang BSW, Pierce NE. 2001. Molecular evolution of a long wavelength- sensitive opsin in mimetic Heliconius butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 72: 435-449. pdf
Briscoe AD and Chittka L. 2001. The evolution of color vision in insects. Annual Review of Entomology, 46: 471-510. pdf
Chittka L and Briscoe A. 2001. Why sensory ecology needs to become more evolutionary–Insect color vision as a case in point. In Barth FG, Schmid A (Eds.) Ecology of Sensing. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 19-37. pdf
Briscoe AD. 2000. Six opsins from the butterfly Papilio glaucus: Molecular phylogenetic evidence for paralogous origins of red-sensitive visual pigments in insects. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 51: 110-121. pdf
Pichaud F, Briscoe A, and Desplan C. 1999. Evolution of color vision. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 9: 622-627. pdf
Briscoe AD. 1999. Intron splice sites of Papilio glaucus PglRh3 corroborate insect opsin phylogeny. Gene, 230: 101-109. pdf
Briscoe AD. 1998. Molecular diversity of visual pigments in the butterfly Papilio glaucus. Naturwissenschaften, 85: 33-35. pdf
Top, mimetic butterflies photographed in daylight (first row) and through an ultraviolet filter (second row). Heliconius (first column) are colorful in the ultraviolet, while those of mimetic Eueides (second column) are colorful only in the visible light. Photographs by Adriana Briscoe and Gilberto Cardenas/UCI.
